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Stephen Wolfram on AI and the Future

posted by takyon on Thursday July 30 2015, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-depends-what-"it"-is dept.

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In this wide ranging interview, Steven Wolfram [creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha] talks about what he's been thinking about for the last 30+ years, and how some of the questions he's had for a long time are now being answered.

I looked for pull quotes, but narrowing down to just one or two quotes from a long interview seemed like it might send the SN discussion down a rabbit hole... if nothing else, this is a calm look at the same topics that have been all over the press recently from Hawking, Musk and others.

One interesting topic is about goals for AIs -- as well as intelligence (however you define it), we humans have goals. How will goals be defined for AIs? Can we come up with a good representation for goals that can be programmed?

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:13PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 30 2015, @02:13PM (#215882) Journal

    Would survival of the species itself be an innate goal?

    No, I think you mistake it for "inane", in the "mindless" sense of it.

    Also, stop anthropomorphizing nature, it hates it.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:33PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday July 30 2015, @06:33PM (#215968) Journal

    in·nate

    adjective

    inborn; natural.
     
    Survival seems to be one of those inborn, natural things that all forms of life do.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 30 2015, @09:55PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 30 2015, @09:55PM (#216040) Journal

      Survival seems to be one of those inborn, natural things that all forms of life do.

      Which doesn't necessarily mean is a goal. Emergent behaviour maybe, but not a goal.

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